George Floyd’s second autopsy reveals death was ‘HOMICIDE’ from asphyxia due to neck and back compression
GEORGE Floyd died from "asphyxia due to neck and back compression that led to a lack of blood flow to the brain," according to findings from an independent autopsy.
Floyd’s family announced the findings on Monday, a week after the died in police custody, and called for to be charged with first-degree murder.
At a press conference on Monday, Baden said Floyd had no underlying health problems that contributed to his death.
The family attorney said: "What you see on the video is exactly what happened. Those police officers were the proximate cause of George Floyd's death."
— as they, like families of other black men killed by police, wanted an independent look that didn't have local authorities' analysis on it.
Baden is the former chief medical examiner of New York City, who was hired to conduct an autopsy of Eric Garner, a black man who died in 2014 after New York police placed him in a chokehold and he pleaded that he could not breathe.
Chauvin on Friday in Floyd's death.
In the weeks since Floyd's death, tens of thousands of people in at least 140 cities in the US and in countries across the globe have been protesting police brutality and racism.
More than 4,100 people have been arrested in recent days in connection with violent protests and demonstrations, which Floyd's brother, Terrence, , as Floyd "would not want y'all to be doing this."